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Re: [Mgs] Engine Frustration

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Subject: Re: [Mgs] Engine Frustration
From: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:50:12 -0700
If it is in neutral, with the plugs out, and you cannot rotate the engine
with the big nut on the crank, then I am afraid you are in a world of hurt.
Try forward and back, of course.

There is not going to be any "quick check".

Might as well take the valve cover off and look for a bent valvestem.


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 3/21/10 11:01 AM, Richard Ewald at richard.ewald@gmail.com wrote:

> did you remove the plugs and try to turn it over?
> 
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Craig Straub
> <craigstraub@sbcglobal.net>wrote:
> 
>> The engine will not phsycially turn over by hand.  You can talk all you
>> want about electrics, it is not an electrical problem.
>> 
>> Craig _______________________________________________
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